Regarding Thomas Nast's wooing of Sally Edwards. Transcription: personal experience, issuing them raw, after the American fashion. Jim Parton once thought [Jesse] Haney might be looking Grace [Eldredge]-wards and warned him by the assertion that the man who married her would have just the same wretched experience as he had with her mother [Fanny Fern]. Haney repudiates all ideas of the sort, candidly, as I think. Indeed if his resolution to choose Sally [Edwards] dates as far back as our Catskill holidays, as she says, Grace might well be looked upon with preoccupied eyes. Haney's present sor
Regarding Thomas Nast's wooing of Sally Edwards. Transcription: personal experience, issuing them raw, after the American fashion. Jim Parton once thought [Jesse] Haney might be looking Grace [Eldredge]-wards and warned him by the assertion that the man who married her would have just the same wretched experience as he had with her mother [Fanny Fern]. Haney repudiates all ideas of the sort, candidly, as I think. Indeed if his resolution to choose Sally [Edwards] dates as far back as our Catskill holidays, as she says, Grace might well be looked upon with preoccupied eyes. Haney's present soreness and suspicion may make him see more in these things than he would have done ordinarily. He doesn ?t love [Thomas] Nast any better and though I can see how study these developments coolly enough, I justify Haney. Little, chubby, ignorant, good-humored, selfish, uncultured Nast! I do by no means admire your indecent haste in ?ǣflopping ? as it were, at Sally ?s feet, directly you found yourself among the woods and rocks of Grafton Centre! It ?ll do your pudgy, approbative, short-necked soul no harm, this disappointment. Haney had introduced him to the house so recently, he himself, with all his good nature, is such an inferior style of Americanized German, that it behooved him to wait a while, to summon up a little modesty, not to adopt the ball-at-a-gate style, as though he Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 135, November 13, 1859 . 13 November 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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